Local adaptation: causal agents of selection and adaptive trait divergence

SM Wadgymar, ML DeMarche… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Divergent selection across the landscape can favor the evolution of local adaptation in
populations experiencing contrasting conditions. Local adaptation is widely observed in a …

Revisiting adaptive potential, population size, and conservation

AA Hoffmann, CM Sgrò, TN Kristensen - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2017 - cell.com
Additive genetic variance (VA) reflects the potential for evolutionary shifts and can be low for
some traits or populations. High VA is critical for the conservation of threatened species …

Terrestrial insects and climate change: adaptive responses in key traits

V Kellermann, B van Heerwaarden - Physiological Entomology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding and predicting how adaptation will contribute to species' resilience to climate
change will be paramount to successfully managing biodiversity for conservation …

Life-History Evolution and the Genetics of Fitness Components in Drosophila melanogaster

T Flatt - Genetics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Life-history traits or “fitness components”—such as age and size at maturity, fecundity and
fertility, age-specific rates of survival, and life span—are the major phenotypic determinants …

Modeling temperature‐dependent development rate and phenology in insects: review of major developments, challenges, and future directions

F Rebaudo, VB Rabhi - Entomologia Experimentalis et …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The study of insect responses to temperature has a long tradition in science, starting from
Réaumur's work on caterpillars in the 18th century. In 1932, Ernst Janisch wrote:'The …

Genomic Evidence for Adaptive Inversion Clines in Drosophila melanogaster

M Kapun, DK Fabian, J Goudet… - Molecular biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Clines in chromosomal inversion polymorphisms—presumably driven by climatic gradients—
are common but there is surprisingly little evidence for selection acting on them. Here we …

Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate

LA Alton, T Kutz, CL Bywater… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Metabolic cold adaptation, or Krogh's rule, is the controversial hypothesis that predicts a
monotonically negative relationship between metabolic rate and environmental temperature …

Identifying targets and agents of selection: innovative methods to evaluate the processes that contribute to local adaptation

SM Wadgymar, DB Lowry, BA Gould… - Methods in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Extensive empirical work has demonstrated local adaptation to discrete environments, yet
few studies have elucidated the genetic and environment mechanisms that generate it …

Experimental Evolution in a Warming World: The Omics Era

MA Santos, A Carromeu-Santos… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A comprehensive understanding of the genetic mechanisms that shape species responses
to thermal variation is essential for more accurate predictions of the impacts of climate …

Negative relationship between thermal tolerance and plasticity in tolerance emerges during experimental evolution in a widespread marine invertebrate

MC Sasaki, HG Dam - Evolutionary Applications, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Whether populations can adapt to predicted climate change conditions, and how rapidly, are
critical questions for the management of natural systems. Experimental evolution has …